prettierd VS efm-langserver

First, you need prettierd:

Besides remapping keys, auto-format with prettier (null-ls, ALE, etc) will wrap your code on line break. This might not be desirable for txt files, but it's transparent and fully supported by markdown. It'll also fix things like aligning your markdown tables. There's also prettierd and prettier_d_slim to keep it running as a daemon in the background, which makes the buffer reformatting really snappy.

For react you will need the one for typescript and the eslint lsp is also used in the config to auto fix errors on save. Also this relies on prettierd to be installed globally: https://github.com/fsouza/prettierd

But today I discovered this tool: https://github.com/fsouza/prettierd. This completely solves the issue: the slowness of prettier is due to the overhead of launching the program. This package leaves prettier running as a daemon, which removes the launch overhead (kind of similar to the already famous `eslint_d`).

Usually another program is used to lint/format code. Basic way is to just run them as a shell command or in another terminal and reload the file, but you can also hook it up to lsp. For example Javascript/Typescript projects use eslint and prettier. Runing `npx prettier` will format the files according to default rules. This is fine for every once in a while or a pre-commit hook. I think you are looking to have it integrated in nvim. Most formatters don't have a language server so you can connect them to nvim lsp with a general language server like: https://github.com/mattn/efm-langserver

I just started using helix and I absolutely love it 🔥 But I faced a really weird problem with using efm-langserver in helix.

I installed efm-langserver with Homebrew. Then, after my `mason_lspconfig` setup I tried adding this:

I've been using pint for formatting php files with null-ls.nvim. Few days ago null-ls.nvim has announced that the plugin will be archived in few months so I started migrating all my formatters and linter from null-ls to efm-langserver. I got other things such as prettier, black, isort, mypy, etc. working but can't get pint to work with php files: If I run pint via efm-langserver, everything is deleted from the buffer, and the saved file is formatted separately. How do I setup efm-langserver correctly to work with pint? Below is my config.yml for pint currently. yaml tools: pint: &pint format-command: "pint --no-interaction --quiet ${INPUT}" format-stdin: false languages: php: - <<: *pint Thank you.

It seems to be a recurring issue: https://github.com/mattn/efm-langserver/issues/181 https://github.com/mattn/efm-langserver/issues/241

I use the LSP if it supports formatting. I supplement that with efm-langserver which interfaces with CLI formatters and linters. It works well, similar to null-ls as I understand it.

As far as I know, the only solution (other than getting formatting directly from a LSP server) is to use EFM (https://github.com/mattn/efm-langserver), which implements the tricky logic of figuring out how to only update the changed text.